Back in feb 07 a friend of mine and I went to Pangbourne Child Beale,the flow was fast enough to need dead cow leads on our cage feeders,after a few hours fishing and catching small roach,he tried a method and showed me .
This involved catapulting out 2 kilos of heavy groundbait(black turbo) mixed with a few handfuls of mole hill earth and 2 pints of casters.
By critically balancing the weight of the feeder so it just held bottom, with the aid of a bow in the line,he cast out with double maggot on a 20 hook,set close to the feeder(8 ins) and let it settle,then by standing up and lifting his rod and dislodging the feeder making it tumble along,when it settled and stopped again,most times a bite was felt,resulting in big roach. I tried it and caught amongst others a 1lb 12oz roach which is pictured in gallery.
He called me last night to say he had fished near oxford yesterday, and the method had worked a treat once more with 9 roach over a pound,albeit for only short periods during the day. If he left it static he hardly got a bite.
Anyone used or heard of this method,it would obviously work on other big pacey rivers.